St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-06
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
A Rain of Spangles Falling on the Giddy
World of Fashion.
BY Bah.

which, it is likely, will cover not only the
fans. parasols and bonnets of fashionable
womankind, but will, it is feared, shine bril-
iantly from vests, cuffs and collars, and the
long side of panels of the skirts A little
spangle, like little lemon in punch, is a
very desirable adjunct, but very much span
gle is to be dreaded as would cyclone.
Somehow, spangles always suggest all kinds
of imitation things, and as we have been
rather free from these denominations, it is to
be hoped that the arrival of the tiny glisten-
ing drop will not herald their introduction.
Steel spanges are greatly in vogue in Lon
don, and the swell ''going-away gown" of the
bride of to-day is one of soft gray cashmere
with a petticoat of gray MORE. gray tulle
bonnet gray tulle parasol and long gray
undressed kid gloves. Upon the high collar
and deep turned-back cuffs, upon the parasol,
fan and bonnet, the steel spangles are law
ished and in this instance it must be con-
fessed that the effect is artistic, and the
whole toilet unusually becoming.
From Paris comes the news, in private
letter, that spangles of steel or gilt are used
upon scarlet and especially upon scarlet par
asols. Just following this is a bit of per-
cOIo4 Livery DOuy OuG
yesterday was decidedly surprised to see
Madame la Duchess Dues drive her hus-
bands four-in-hand around the lake. 1t
seemed to me an illustration of the fact that
blood will tell, for Madame la Duchesse gets
some of her blood, as she does all of her
money, from her grandmamma la Veuve
Chcquot, whose health, as well as whose
wine, has SO often been drunk"
Somehow connected the spangles and this
rather loud behavior together, feeling that
the vulgarity in the combination of red par
asols and gold spangles would necessarily
Undue women with the desire to behave as
if they were members of a circus. There
seems to be fancy among the Parisians just
now for decidedly outre behavior anyhow;
Menier, the famous chocolate man, who has
made such an enormous fortune, regularly
manages private circus, the riders and act
ors of which are the creme de la creme pre-
sumably of the world of chocolate anyhow.
One of the cleverest women there makes her
self conspicuous, and is encouraged in it by
her husband, by wearing mans costume
and attending all the balls and smart re-
ceptions in evening dress, such as one
would think might be despised by woman,
inasmuch as it makes no difference between
the walters and the gentlemen. Surely with
everything else that comes to it. Paris is a
city of folly.
One of the novelties of the autumn will
be the Irish cloak, which, between you and
me, looks exactly like an enormous apron
tied about ones neck and having the fronts
looped up in sling fashion to form sleeves.
1t had its birth, in the smart world at least,
through Lady Duferin. Her ladyship had
been to Ireland and found some very nice
Irish frieze; she asked her tailor in London
if he couldn't make her long wrap of it,
something out Of the general run, and that
would be decidedly individual. With Won
derful quickness he suggested the cloaks |
such as the Irish women wear land who |
hasn't seen them looking as pictur-
esque as possible at Queenstown and |
his idea was thought to be good |
and acted upon. Lady Duferin had a great |
many made, and soon all the beauties of the |
London world appeared in them, finding
them useful as dust protectors when on |
coach, delightfully."- easy to put on when |
aboard yacht and altogether becoming,
provided-always provided-that the wearer |
is tall and not very stout. Women who found |
Mother Hubbards becoming are artistically |
suited to the Irish cloaks, and women who |
love color can have them very properly de- |
veloped in bright scarlet cloth.
The handsomest topcoat that have seen |
for long time was made for the wife of |
well-known yachtsman it fitted her perfectly |
end was made of white cloth, had very |
nigh collar and short shoulder cape, but the |
buttons, which really formed the trim
ming, were of light tortoise shell, with the |
monogram of the New York Yacht Club in |
silver upon each. The hat was white cloth |
Derby, having one large button just at the |
side, where the narrow ribbon band was |
bowed.
think il must be in the Gebhardt family |
to dress well, for Mrs. Nelson, the sister of /
Fred. Gebhardt, has been gowned this season |
in the most charming cottons, or, as our En- |
glish tailnrs say, prints" imaginable; and |
when I saw the white coat, there was also |
shown me short double breasted jacket of |
dark green billiard cloth, which Mrs. Nelson
proposes wearing on cool evenings with her
prints
Miss Beach Grant has, believs, returned
to this country, and is at Newport. Itwould
be natural to suppose that, after all the pub
Lefty given TO her engagement with Lord
Garmoyle, or, as he is facetiously termed,
the story of bills for jewelry sent
to her father, and the final backing out of
the little cad because the settlements didn't